BLOOMSBURG –The pieces have fallen into place for a rematch of the Bloomsburg University football team's lone setback of the season.  In an NCAA First Round playoff matchup, Bloomsburg makes its second trip to Shippensburg University this season on Saturday, Nov. 17 with kickoff set for 12 p.m.
 
The Bloomsburg University Community Government Association (CGA) will be providing a fan bus to the game and details can be found at the link above.  Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Ticket prices are set by the NCAA. The gates to the stadium open at 10:30 a.m. while parking lots for fans can be accessed beginning at 9:30 a.m.
 
The game will be broadcast live on WHLM (930-AM) based out of Bloomsburg with Jim Doyle and Andy Ulicny calling all the action. In addition, listeners throughout the world can listen to and watch the game live on BU's website at www.buhuskies.com. The pre-game show will begin 30 minutes before kickoff.

Sports Fever will broadcast the game live and air the game on a number of affiliates, including The Comcast Network (all of PA, NJ, and DE), FOX 43 (WPMT-TV), CBS 22 (WYOU-TV) and Blue Ridge Cable Network Channel 113. A tape delay will air Tuesday evening on Root Sports Pittsburgh and DirecTV Channel 659. The game is also expected to air online at ESPN 3.
  
The winner of Saturday's game will travel to Winston-Salem State on Saturday, Nov. 24 for an NCAA Second Round game beginning at 12 p.m.
 
The 10th-ranked Huskies (10-1) look to avenge their last-second, 49-42 defeat to the Red Raiders (10-1) when the two teams met in a battle of nationally-ranked, unbeaten teams on Oct. 27.  Since then, Bloomsburg finished its season on a two-game winning streak, as Shippensburg had its Division II-best 14-game winning streak snapped in a 41-10 loss to Indiana (PA) in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championship game.
 
In Bloomsburg and Shippensburg's previous meeting, SU quarterback and PSAC East Athlete of the Year Zach Zulli completed a two-yard scoring pass to Bryan Barley for the game winning points with 4.8 seconds remaining.  The Huskies had overcome a 35-7 halftime deficit to tie the game with 2:39 to play in the fourth quarter.
 
Bloomsburg junior running back Franklyn Quiteh (Tobyhanna/Pocono Mountain West) ran for 268 yards and four touchdowns against the Red Raiders.  The Harlon Hill candidate has thrived through Bloomsburg's record-breaking season and will play a significant role in BU's success this weekend.
 
Quiteh, this week's PSAC East Offensive Athlete of the Week and a three-time All-PSAC first team selection, enters Saturday's game ranked second on the BU all-time rushing list and third in the PSAC with 5,129 yards. He leads Division II in rushing (174.73), is second in scoring (12.55) and owns BU records in 100-yard games (31) and consecutive 100-yard games (16).
 
The Huskies have already sealed the top rushing team in BU history with 3,548 yards this season.  It needs just four rushing yards to set the PSAC single-season record of 3,552 set in 1981 by Millersville.
 
Four of BU's five starting offensive linemen earned All-PSAC East honors this season. The starting group consisting of Matt Feiler (Strasburg/Lampeter-Strasburg), Alex Buchert (Robesonia/Conrad Weiser), Chris Steck (Mt. Carmel/Mt. Carmel), Brian Clarke (Hanover/Hanover), and Brandon Allen (Philadelphia/Frankford) has allowed seven sacks this season, the second lowest in the PSAC and eighth in the country at 0.64 per game. It has allowed just one sack in the last six games, including the previous game against Shippensburg.
 
Redshirt-freshman quarterback Tim Kelly (Camp Hill/Cedar Cliff) has flourished this season and hopes to take a successful previous two games into Shippensburg on Saturday.  Kelly wasn't his sharpest against the Red Raiders in the first meeting, tossing a career-high four interceptions, but has overall played above common expectations that are placed on a first-year quarterback.
 
Kelly has thrown for 1,770 yards and 22 touchdowns for the Huskies.  He has held streaks of 75 and 57 passes without an interception earlier this season.  Kelly set a career-high against ESU with 267 passing yards and four touchdowns.  It was the first four-TD game for a BU quarterback since Dan Latorre's four against West Chester in 2007.
 
Senior wide receiver Ryan Dickerson (Harleysville/Souderton), an All-PSAC East second team selection for the first time in his career, has emerged as one of the most effective receivers in the conference the second half of the season.   Dickerson has a team-high 34 catches for 633 yards in 2012 and has caught a TD pass in a school-record seven straight games. 
 
Defensively, Jarrett Pidgeon (Barnegat, NJ/Southern Regional) had registered double-digit tackles in three of the last five games for the Huskies.  He has had great success against Shippensburg as he recorded a season-high 13 tackles this season, and a career-high 17 tackles in last season's meeting.   An All-PSAC East first teamer for the second straight season, Pidgeon leads BU with 97 tackles which rates fourth in the PSAC.
 
Fellow linebacker Justin Shirk (Harrisburg/Central Dauphin) has had two straight career-high, 14 tackle games, earning him back-to-back PSAC East Defensive Athlete of the Week honors. On special teams, Shirk, an All-PSAC second team selection, has a team-leading 16 tackles.
 
Senior defensive linemen Larry Webster (Hagerstown, MD/Elkton) will look to disrupt Zulli all he can on Saturday.  The All-PSAC first team honoree registered a team-high three sacks against The Rock last week, marking the first three-sack performance by a BU player since 1999.  Webster broke the previous school-record of 12 sacks in a season in 1997 as he leads Bloomsburg with 13.5 sacks in his first season in the maroon and gold.
 
Shippensburg enters Saturday's game with the nation's No. 1 total offense and No. 2 passing offense in addition to the No. 33 total defense. The Red Raiders are averaging 539.6 yards per game on offense (including 392 yards per game through the air) while yielding 340 yards per game on defense. SU is also averaging 48.8 points per game, which ranks second in the nation behind Henderson State (53.3 ppg).
 
Shippensburg has earned an NCAA tournament berth for the third time in the last nine years and is making its fifth NCAA postseason appearance in school history (1981, 1991, 2004, 2009, 2012).